Florida State’s phenomenal freshman quarterback, who smashed school, ACC and national records while leading the Seminoles to a perfect regular season and a spot in the national championship game, won the 2013 Heisman Trophy in a landslide Saturday night.

With his trademark gold necklace resting beneath the collar of a dark blue suit, Winston hugged his parents and teared up after the announcement was made live on ESPN.

Winston, who learned just over a week ago that he will not face charges following a sexual battery investigation, said his emotions got the best of him when he looked into the eyes of his mother and father, Loretta and Antonor Winston.

“They felt so proud,” Winston explained later. “I ain’t seen that look in their eyes in a long time. … When you see your mom and you see your dad – when they’ve been struggling through this whole process – and now you see that smile on their face, it comforted me.”

The clear-cut voting was a fitting salute to a season’s worth of blowouts for Winston and the No. 1 Florida State Seminoles.

Manziel, who won the 2012 Heisman Trophy, told reporters that even he voted for Winston.

While poise under pressure has been one of Winston’s greatest characteristics on the field, the Seminoles’ young star said he had a difficult time regaining his composure once his name was announced as the winner.

“When I went up there, I was like, ‘I’m speechless,’” Winston said. “I don’t have anything to say.”

So instead of walking directly to the podium, he bought time by shaking hands with several former Heisman Trophy winners lined up along the back of the stage.

Jimbo Fisher, sitting in the audience at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square, wiped away tears as Winston delivered a passionate, personal speech that touched on his first youth sports championship, his father losing his job three years ago, and a difficult last month that ended with the state attorney deciding there was not enough evidence to prove a crime occurred.

“When you watch someone work so hard for something — and be so team-oriented, not individual-oriented — it really reinforces that the good things happen to the good guys,” Fisher said, noting that Winston never let the off-the-field drama get in the way of his teammates’ goals.

“Just to know what he went through to get up there on that stage … sometimes as a coach, it just hits you.”

At just 19, Winston becomes the youngest winner of the Heisman Trophy. He joins a pair of former Seminoles who have interesting distinctions of their own – 2000 winner Chris Weinke is the oldest to have earned the award, and 1993 winner Charlie Ward is the only one to play in the NBA.

The voting was not without controversy.

Of the 900 Heisman voters who cast ballots, 115 left Winston off completely, leading to speculation that some penalized him because of the criminal allegation.

“God bless them,” Winston said. “Obviously everyone has their own opinion. It’s basically a numbers game. And I was blessed that I had the majority vote.”

It was much more than that. According to Heisman officials, Winston’s margin of victory — he had 2,205 total points, compared to 704 for McCarron — was the fifth-largest disparity of the last 50 years.

Winston, who didn’t even win FSU’s starting job until preseason camp, emerged on the Heisman scene in October when ESPN’s cameras captured his inspirational pregame talk before the Seminoles took on then-No. 3 Clemson in a pivotal road game.

“If we’re gonna do it then,” Winston shouted that night, “we do it big!”

Over the next three hours, Winston proved to the world he had athletic talent to match his charisma. Playing before a raucous crowd in “Death Valley,” Winston passed for 444 yards and led the Seminoles to a 51-14 victory. From there, it was blowout after blowout.

With one game remaining — the Jan. 6 national championship game against Auburn — Winston has passed for 3,820 yards, 38 touchdowns and already has shattered several individual records. But as he has done throughout the season, Winston stressed on Saturday that the Heisman is a team award.

“This is not for me,” he said. “This is for Florida State. This is for my team. Because if I didn’t have those guys, I wouldn’t even be here.”

In an interview before the announcement, Winston told reporters that he and his teammates are, “trying to bring that late-’90s and the early-’90s swag back to Tallahassee.”

He later was asked what he is going to tell his teammates when he returns to campus.

“This Heisman Trophy is ours,” Winston said. “But that crystal ball will have OUR name on it.”